Chapter 164. Extending the time fur final proof and payment on lands claimed under the public land laws of the United States
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CHAP. 164.— An Act Extending the time fur final proof and payment on lands claimed under the public land laws of the United States.July 26, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Time for final proof, etc, extended.Homestead and desert laud claims. That the time for making final proof and payment for all lands located under thePreemption claims. homestead and desert land laws of the United States, proof and payment of which has not yet been made, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the period of one year from the time proof and payment would become due under existing laws.
Sec. 2. That the time of making final payments on entries under the preemption Act is hereby extended for one year from the date when the same becomes due in all cases where preemption entrymen are unable to make final payments from causes which they can not control, evidence of such inability to be subject to the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior. Approved, July 26, 1894.